This week, Frieze debuts Frieze Viewing Room, an ambitious new digital initiative that will launch with an online edition of Frieze New York. The mobile app and web-based platform will be live May 8–15 2020, with a preview from May 6–7, and will offer visitors the opportunity to explore diverse virtual viewing room spaces. Galleries…
Massimiliano Gioni, the New York-based Italian curator and contemporary art critic, serves as the Artistic Director of NYC’s New Museum, as well as the Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan. Hailing from Busto Arsizio, Italy, Gioni is a leading figure in the contemporary art world, having curated a multitude of celebrated exhibitions,…
Whitechapel Gallery is bringing film, video and animation from around the world to audiences at home as part of its Artists’ Film International (AFI) programme. During these precarious times, every Tuesday a film selected by one of 20 global partners launches on Whitechapel Gallery’s website. AFI is a consortium of organisations from cities around the world,…
Running until 16 May 2020 and curated by Cassie Beadle, London’s Cob Gallery presents its debut online exhibition Escape Fantasy, a selection of original works on paper by Frances Waite. Best known for her subversive approach to photorealistic graphite drawing, Waite’s practice explores the conflicts that arise at uncomfortable intersections between truth and fantasy. Waite’s…
Nico Marzano heads the film programme and distribution arm at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (ICA), foregrounding under-represented independent and experimental films to diverse audiences. Marzano is also the founder of FRAMES of REPRESENTATION (FoR), a laboratory conceived in 2015 to engage with new visions of cinema through supporting exhibition, production and distribution of innovative and politically aware cinematic…
magCulture Founder and Creative Director Jeremy Leslie is a steadfast believer in magazines being a uniquely relevant and dynamic media form, despite various challenges faced by the industry today. His business operates simultaneously as a studio, offering strategic and creative services, a journal, focussing on the future of editorial design, and a shop with a…
Sadie Coles launches SCHQ Electric, a new series of week-long, continually changing, online screenings of artist’s films and video works accessible through the gallery’s website. The inaugural screening is of Lawrence Lek’s CGI film Geomancer, 2017, still available to stream until Thursday 9 April 2020. Sadie Coles HQ tells Something Curated: “In the first instance,…
In light of the present health crisis, and the on-going lockdown it has prompted, a number of cultural organisations and grassroots initiatives have launched funds to support in-need creatives working across diverse fields. Something Curated highlights eight such funding opportunities, along with links to apply to them. Arts Council England’s Emergency Fund for Individuals…